Towards detecting surgical clips in 3D ultrasound for target localization in radiation therapy: A study on tissue phantoms

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5282-5285

  Karimaghaloo, Zahra ^a   Shrawane, Prasad ^b   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a   Rohling, Robert ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; ULTRASONICS; VISIBILITY;

3-D ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FIDUCIAL MARKER; MOMENT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL CLIPS; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TISSUE PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND BEAMS;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849118491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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